Dual Monitors using an NVIDIA Quadro 1000 FX card

[Johannes Ullrich]

>  I have spend hours editing my
> XF86Config file and would like to see if anyone has gone down this road
> before or has any advice as to what my problem might be.  Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

First of all: Do you have the drivers from NVidia? I am not
sure if the open source drivers support twinview for nvidia
cards. While I don't have a 1000FX, These settings work
for my Laptop (GeForce2):


#
# First, you need a 'monitor' section for ech of your monitors
# In my case, its the Laptop LCD and the external CRT.
# make sure to comment out and 'DisplaySize' parameters.
# it will not prevent it from working, but some programs,
# most notable OpenOffice, will get the aspect ratio wrong
#

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Dell 1600x1200 Laptop Display Panel"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
        VertRefresh  59.0 - 85.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection
 
Section "Monitor"
 
#       DisplaySize  400        300
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Dell P1110"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 121.0
        VertRefresh  48.0 - 160.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection
 
#
# Next the actual video card. The important lines
# are the 'Option "TwinView" ' and the
# 'Option "MetaModes" lines
#


Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "nVidia GeForce 2 Go"
        VideoRam    32768
        Option      "TwinView"
        Option      "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31.5 - 90.0"
        Option      "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "59.0 - 75.0"
        Option      "MetaModes"
"1600x1200,1600x1200;1600x1200,NULL;NULL,1600x1200;1024x768,1024x768;1024x768,1600x1200"
EndSection

#
# lastly the 'Screen' section. I don't think it requires any
# changes from 'normal'
#
 
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
#               Modes "800x600"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection



 
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